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I am not using a seo plugin. Every time I try to, it jacks the site.

I don't need link-building and that kind of thing.  My site is well-established and in fact, I used to be on top my category.

What happened is I suffered some sabotage. Someone with access to the google webmaster told google not to crawl my site. This went on for almost a year before I noticed!  As a result, my traffic dropped by close to 70%! I am now trying to regain my status. 

My site is large, and all the content is original so I think if I can get everything set correctly, I will climb back up.

I also switched from bbpress to simple:press, which changed the url's for my old boards, which were completely indexed. I knew this would happen - I am looking to consolidate loss and set up for the future.

Unfortunately, google is not indexing the new forum very quickly...or at all? I am actually losing indexed pages at this point and don't know why.

I load the sitemap and look at it and it seems BIZARRE to me. Obscure pages in the forum (there are 700K posts in the forum) are weighted at 80% / daily - this makes no sense to me, but may be normal? I really have not idea.

I am also struggling to do basic things like set up google authorship. What I am good at is creating content...I would like to get back to it, but have been pissin' into the wind for a year, due to the sabotage and really, desperately want to get the back end of the site properly configured.

I have a page rank of 4. I was climbing steadily for years until someone went in and unplugged me. So the answer is - I need general, basic wp seo and hopefully someone who is also familiar with simple:press as getting the forum indexed is very important.

As it is, I am not at all confident things are set up correctly and after what I've been through over the last year...well as hard as I work, I'd like to know I am not held back by some stupid error.

Oh, I am sorry. I misunderstood. I do have the google xml sitemap thing installed and have submitted a sitemap to google.  I thought you meant something like this: http://wordpress.org/plugins/c.....ck-go-seo/

I've just figured out the authorship problem so I am down to making sure the forum gets indexed. 

My sitemap test free from errors. It's possible I don't have a problem, but I would like to be assured of that. Because google is subtracting rather adding urls.

This is what I am dealing with / trying to fix:

It's just so sad (if you're me).

So the sitemap looks odd to me. Why are these obscure pages rated 80% and "daily". I don't have it set that way in wp.

So does the sitemap look normal/correct?

Sorry I am slow.

Yes, I am using your sitemap plug in. It's set to run daily.

Thanks.